Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

13:15; Habakkuk 3:17, 18)
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Let not teachers have favorites among their
students, or give to the bright, quick students the
most attention. Those who are apparently the most
unpromising most need the tact and kindly words
that will bind their hearts to the heart of the
teacher.
First impressions are not to be trusted. Students
who at first seem dull and slow may in the end
make greater progress than those who are naturally
quicker. If they are thorough and systematic in
their work they will gain much that others will fail
to gain. Those who form habits of patient,
persevering industry will accomplish more than
those of quick, vivacious, brilliant mind, who,
though grasping the point quickly, lose it just as
readily. The patient ones, though slower to learn,
will stand ahead of those who learn so quickly that
they do not need to study.
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